It shouldn’t have taken a PhD in economics to notice this – Wirepoints Quickpoint
May 17, 2024
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What a representation of Chicago’s plight.
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The Illinois’ Supreme Court recently decided it would not take up Rauner’s appeal of a lower court ruling that the state has to pay thousands of members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31 their automatic raises, called step increases. Rauner and lawmakers now have to figure out how to pay for those pay hikes that have been accumulating since summer 2015. SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
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The Chicago Teachers Union Plays Hooky – Wirepoints in the Wall Street Journal*
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The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board cited Wirepoints’ analysis of Chicago student proficiency data in their latest piece condemning the Chicago Teachers Union’s outrageous contract demands…all while a vast majority of Chicago’s children graduate unable to read at grade level.
Gov. Pritzker is using the threat of budget cuts to get more tax hikes passed – Wirepoints joins Tom Miller of WJPF Carbondale
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Public education staffing has ballooned over the years…yet kids still can’t read – Wirepoints on with Jeff Daly of WZUS Decatur Radio
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Ted joined Jeff Daly to discuss how politicians can never spend enough on education despite there being no accountability for that spending, the growth of education staffing across Illinois, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $1 billion demand for Chicago schools, why Gov. Pritzker is providing $830 million in taxpayer subsidies to struggling EV carmaker Rivian, and more.
Mark,
We have NO money for this. We already have not enough money for anything else, including the doomed as is pensions. What I want to ask you is, are the unions really this stupid? They are only going to bring upon the collapase quicker by being the greedy, corrupt demanding fools they are currently being. There is NO money for raises at all. So Mark, are the unions just trying to get as much as posisble before it blows? This slowwalk in the courts should be illegal too, and it is pathetic that it is not.
Do you really believe public workers should not get the wage step increase that was bargained for in a prior negotiation years ago and agreed to by both sides? Hold your breath…stomp your feet…and refuse to pay. That was Rauners strategy. Basic contract breech. The union sued and won. Again. Surprise. Judges and Courts are not fond of bald naked breach of contract… should they have in this case? Did they get this case wrong? They won… not with union magic. But with BLACK LETTER LAW. Like when they won with SB1. BLACK LETTER LAW. Not because of corrupt judges… Read more »
I’d say the point is they should renegotiate a concession. They and everybody else will be better off in the long run. Happens all the time in the private sector for workers in broke companies.
I want affordable government services like most other states have. I have no power to stop the greedy unions, but I certainly have the power to move. My company is consering moving if taxes go up much more, and if they do, I am gone. I will watch the public unions sink their own ship from another state with a big smile on my face. 🙂 Illinois’ public unions are not affordable and are totally corrupt and self-serving. The laws in this state were written by public union puppets who are CORRUPT. There is NO money for raises and your… Read more »
Also, working for the corrupt, broke state of Illinois does not make you some sort of saint. Plenty of other states have much more affordable state worker plans that are not going broke and also destroying the state for the minority of the state population. Illinois’ public unions are corrupt and self-absorbed. You think I can get rid of step increases on my own? You think the greedy unions you are defending will ever allow that anyway? They are going to literally be so greedy and short-sighted that the plans will totally collapse instead. Reality and math will fix it… Read more »
“The problem with Socialism is that you will eventually run out of other peoples’ money”.
Just take it out of the extra $300M earmarked for education this year that we don’t have.